Someone Take Erik To Kidnappers Anonymous

Literary history that happened on 12 July

torment your spouse with violin music

my favourite Bernini statue isn’t a real statue, but the damaged clay and straw angel that was the model for the bronze statue.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.

Middlemarch by George Eliot

𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚, 𝒊’𝒎 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏’ 𝒔𝒐 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆

Lucretia, 1664 (detail) Rembrandt.

some pics of my current afternoon reading; catching up on Fitzgerald this time!! ✨

Jan Van Eyck c. 1434

Arnolfini Wedding (detail)

i heard the music of true forgiveness filling the theater, conferring on all who sat there, perfect absolution. god was singing through this little man to all the world, unstoppable, making my defeat more bitter with every passing bar.

amadeus, nineteen-eight four — dir. miloš forman.

Dark Academia On A Budget Aesthetic

Thrifted/Secondhand books. Old t-shirts & jeans. Watching Dead Poets Society on 123movies. Printing sheet music from Google. Jacking your dad’s coats & sweaters. Sneaking your mom’s blazers & loafers. Cheap eyeliner & dry shampoo. Downloading PDFs of classic books. Using $1 notebooks for journaling. Gas station coffee & tea. Borrowing books from the library (and “forgetting” to return them).